What did you think of "What They Died For"?
So AWESOME it made me want to protect the island with Jack
19 (76%)
As GREAT as a Lost Family Meal
2 (8%)
OK
3 (12%)
As BAD as being punched by Desmond
1 (4%)
As HORRIBLE as being shot by Ben
0 (0%)
Votes so far: 25
What were your favorate moments in "What They Died For"?
Breakfast at the Shepard Home
3 (20%)
Jack sewing up Kates wound this time
3 (20%)
Mile's "otherwise known as last week" line
8 (53%)
Ben, Richard and Mile's moment at Alex's burial swing set
1 (6%)
Ben's comment about the Smoke Monster being the one who actually summoned him
4 (26%)
Desmond beating on Ben one more time
9 (60%)
Widmore "as usual", three steps ahead of Ben
3 (20%)
Sawyer and Jack's moment about who really killed the Kwons and Sayid
6 (40%)
Alt. Desmond turning himself in
3 (20%)
Family Dinner at the Rouseaus
6 (40%)
MIB smashing Richard into a tree
2 (13%)
Ben shooting Widmore
3 (20%)
Jacob's campfire moment
8 (53%)
Kates question about what everyone died for
5 (33%)
Jacob's reason for why Kate's name was crossed off
4 (26%)
Jack talking on the role of Island Protector
4 (26%)
Sawyer's God Complex comment about Jack
3 (20%)
The ritual for Jack to become Protector
5 (33%)
Ana Lucia!!!!!
6 (40%)
The prison break
5 (33%)
Desmond gathering a team
11 (73%)
Votes so far: 15
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Friday, May 21, 2010
Lost Redux: Choice? What Choice? Isn't This Show About Destiny?
Tue., May. 18, 2010 9:11 PM PDT by Kristin Dos Santos
John Locke has it right. It is hard to let go!
Episodes like tonight's Lost remind us just how much we're going to miss this crazy-awesome series when it ends this Sunday.
Click in only if you've seen tonight's episode, cause there is much to discuss, including the reveal of which co-star punched Michael Emerson in real life...
Henry Ian Cusick, aka Desmond. Apparently one of those punches in the crazy-good parking lot scene (I die!) accidentally made contact, and Michael Emerson got quite the shiner in real life a few weeks back. That black eye was pretty obvious in subsequent island scenes in this episode, which begs the question: Lack of sufficient spackle/concealer or an intentional nod to injuries bleeding between the two worlds, which could also be the case with Jack's recurrent bleeding neck? Hmm…
Jack Is the New Jacob! After raising his hand at Jacob's self-burning (weird!) campfire and volunteering to protect the island, Jack drank the cup, absorbed the knowledge and became "like" Jacob. So now Jack will go on forever as the island protector, right? And that's the end of that? Maybe…I have to say, full disclosure, I do not know the answer (I am keeping myself mostly spoiler free for the finale), but I have doubts about Jack "sticking" as the island guard for a few reasons (see if you agree):
From the very beginning of Lost, we've been told that this series is all about destiny. Not choice.
It seemed that the island chose the past protectors, not the other way around. (Cue Allison Janney's words last week to Jacob: "I see now that it was always you.")
Jacob noted hesitation in Jack's voice when he volunteered, asking "Is that a question?"
Jacob told Jack he would protect the island "as long as you can"—which isn't even a legally binding marriage vow as far as I know.
This is really out there but must be said: Desmond sure has had that look of the protector/Jacob lately: glossy-eyed, blissed-out, calm and plain and brutally honest and knowing exactly what to do. What is up with that?
Ben Is the MIB's Puppet; Widmore Was Jacob's: As Ben and Charles Widmore's long-running rivalry comes to a tragic end tonight—Linus shot him! To try and hurt Penny! You bastard!—we are left wondering what the big Ben v. Widmore pissing match was about all these years. My theory? All along, Ben thought he was talking to Jacob, but it was the MIB wrongfully portraying Jacob. (Ben said tonight: "I was told I could summon the monster. That was before I realized it summoned me.") And Widmore, it seems, was actually talking to the real Jacob. (Tonight he told Ben, "Jacob brought me to the island.".) Both were led to believe they were special. And chosen by Jacob. But perhaps neither were.
Ben Is Reentering the Dark Side: Volunteering to kill whomever MIB wants, ratting out Widmore, shooting Widmore dead… A few days ago, I asked Michael Emerson if Ben would end the series redeemed, and he reiterated that Ben is "preredeemed" by the island, perhaps hinting to the MIB's ruse all these years. And of course, off the island, in the Sideways world, Benjamin is a big old softie, tearing up at Alex's need for a father figure after enjoying a good homecooked meal from Rousseau. (Darlton, I know you already shot and edited the finale, but any chance Ben could end up in the Sideways world, shacking up with Rousseau?)
Kate Was/Is a Candidate: We found out tonight that Jacob crossed her off the list because she's a mother now. Does this mean she's meant to raise Aaron? And does this mean the Kwon that remained on the list was Jin?
ABC/Mario Perez
Terry O'Quinn Needs an Emmy: To be able to flip back and forth so seamlessly from the ruthless Man in Black slitting Zoe's throat to a meek, sweet and guilt-ridden Locke trying to let go in Jack's office? Ay, so good. Any other actor would make this character whiplash laughable, but T.O.Q. rocks every moment of it. Epic awesome.
WHAT LIES AHEAD
The end.
Ugh.
Ugh.
Ugh.
I don't even want to give any spoilers tonight because you have so little time before you get all the answers you are going to get. Less than a week. Five days and counting.
Please remember to come back to this very section next Sunday night (very late) or early Monday morning for the last-ever Lost Redux, and exclusive video from my Lost party in Los Angeles, where I'll attempt to tackle any lingering questions. (Key word: attempt.)
My one hope? That after the series finale airs this Sunday, our faces all look like Jack's did tonight right after he drank the cup. "Aha! This is what it's all about."
But the reality is Damon and Carlton have told us many times now that there will be unanswered questions, and the finale focuses more on the characters and what matters to them.
And given that the real explanation of the island is transmitted not by words but by the drinking of a cup we can't get our grubby little non-candidate hands on, we should be prepared this Sunday to just…go along for one hell of a final ride. And savor every last minute with these characters who've given us some of the best TV of all time.
You can't tell I'm getting sentimental or anything, can you? Naaahhhh….
We're still selecting the final candidates (see what I did there) for my Lost party, so if you still want to attend, email me at tvdiva@eonline.com, or tweet me at @kristindsantos.
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b181753_lost_redux_choice_what_choice_isnt_this.html
John Locke has it right. It is hard to let go!
Episodes like tonight's Lost remind us just how much we're going to miss this crazy-awesome series when it ends this Sunday.
Click in only if you've seen tonight's episode, cause there is much to discuss, including the reveal of which co-star punched Michael Emerson in real life...
Henry Ian Cusick, aka Desmond. Apparently one of those punches in the crazy-good parking lot scene (I die!) accidentally made contact, and Michael Emerson got quite the shiner in real life a few weeks back. That black eye was pretty obvious in subsequent island scenes in this episode, which begs the question: Lack of sufficient spackle/concealer or an intentional nod to injuries bleeding between the two worlds, which could also be the case with Jack's recurrent bleeding neck? Hmm…
Jack Is the New Jacob! After raising his hand at Jacob's self-burning (weird!) campfire and volunteering to protect the island, Jack drank the cup, absorbed the knowledge and became "like" Jacob. So now Jack will go on forever as the island protector, right? And that's the end of that? Maybe…I have to say, full disclosure, I do not know the answer (I am keeping myself mostly spoiler free for the finale), but I have doubts about Jack "sticking" as the island guard for a few reasons (see if you agree):
From the very beginning of Lost, we've been told that this series is all about destiny. Not choice.
It seemed that the island chose the past protectors, not the other way around. (Cue Allison Janney's words last week to Jacob: "I see now that it was always you.")
Jacob noted hesitation in Jack's voice when he volunteered, asking "Is that a question?"
Jacob told Jack he would protect the island "as long as you can"—which isn't even a legally binding marriage vow as far as I know.
This is really out there but must be said: Desmond sure has had that look of the protector/Jacob lately: glossy-eyed, blissed-out, calm and plain and brutally honest and knowing exactly what to do. What is up with that?
Ben Is the MIB's Puppet; Widmore Was Jacob's: As Ben and Charles Widmore's long-running rivalry comes to a tragic end tonight—Linus shot him! To try and hurt Penny! You bastard!—we are left wondering what the big Ben v. Widmore pissing match was about all these years. My theory? All along, Ben thought he was talking to Jacob, but it was the MIB wrongfully portraying Jacob. (Ben said tonight: "I was told I could summon the monster. That was before I realized it summoned me.") And Widmore, it seems, was actually talking to the real Jacob. (Tonight he told Ben, "Jacob brought me to the island.".) Both were led to believe they were special. And chosen by Jacob. But perhaps neither were.
Ben Is Reentering the Dark Side: Volunteering to kill whomever MIB wants, ratting out Widmore, shooting Widmore dead… A few days ago, I asked Michael Emerson if Ben would end the series redeemed, and he reiterated that Ben is "preredeemed" by the island, perhaps hinting to the MIB's ruse all these years. And of course, off the island, in the Sideways world, Benjamin is a big old softie, tearing up at Alex's need for a father figure after enjoying a good homecooked meal from Rousseau. (Darlton, I know you already shot and edited the finale, but any chance Ben could end up in the Sideways world, shacking up with Rousseau?)
Kate Was/Is a Candidate: We found out tonight that Jacob crossed her off the list because she's a mother now. Does this mean she's meant to raise Aaron? And does this mean the Kwon that remained on the list was Jin?
ABC/Mario Perez
Terry O'Quinn Needs an Emmy: To be able to flip back and forth so seamlessly from the ruthless Man in Black slitting Zoe's throat to a meek, sweet and guilt-ridden Locke trying to let go in Jack's office? Ay, so good. Any other actor would make this character whiplash laughable, but T.O.Q. rocks every moment of it. Epic awesome.
WHAT LIES AHEAD
The end.
Ugh.
Ugh.
Ugh.
I don't even want to give any spoilers tonight because you have so little time before you get all the answers you are going to get. Less than a week. Five days and counting.
Please remember to come back to this very section next Sunday night (very late) or early Monday morning for the last-ever Lost Redux, and exclusive video from my Lost party in Los Angeles, where I'll attempt to tackle any lingering questions. (Key word: attempt.)
My one hope? That after the series finale airs this Sunday, our faces all look like Jack's did tonight right after he drank the cup. "Aha! This is what it's all about."
But the reality is Damon and Carlton have told us many times now that there will be unanswered questions, and the finale focuses more on the characters and what matters to them.
And given that the real explanation of the island is transmitted not by words but by the drinking of a cup we can't get our grubby little non-candidate hands on, we should be prepared this Sunday to just…go along for one hell of a final ride. And savor every last minute with these characters who've given us some of the best TV of all time.
You can't tell I'm getting sentimental or anything, can you? Naaahhhh….
We're still selecting the final candidates (see what I did there) for my Lost party, so if you still want to attend, email me at tvdiva@eonline.com, or tweet me at @kristindsantos.
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b181753_lost_redux_choice_what_choice_isnt_this.html
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
'Lost': Smokey is...What?
Doc Jensen distills your thinking on this question into three answers. But first, on the scene at the ''Lost'' celebration at UCLA
By Jeff Jensen May 14, 2010
On Thursday night, I saw the next episode of Lost, ''What They Died For,'' which will air on Tuesday night. It screened as part of ''Lost Live,'' a really cool event produced by ABC that celebrated the music of Lost (composed by Up Oscar winner Michael Giacchino) and gave everyone involved in the Lost phenomenon — producers, cast, and fans — a chance to congregate and commune one last time before Damon and Carlton crank the donkey wheel one last notch and the show transfigures into a giant green Hurleybird and flies away on May 23. In the house at Royce Hall in the campus of UCLA: Josh Holloway (Sawyer), Jorge Garcia (Hurley), Daniel Dae Kim (Jin), Michael Emerson (Ben), Nestor Carbonell (Richard Alpert), Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond), Sonya Walger (Penny), Titus Welliver (the Man In Black), and a plethora of faces from the past, including Ian Somerhalder (Boone), Jeremy Davies (Faraday), Rebecca Mader (Charlotte), Lance Reddick (Matthew Abaddon), Kim Dickens (Cassidy), Sterling Beaumon (Young Ben), Harold Perrineau (Michael), and Malcolm David Kelley. (Waaaaaaaaaaaalt!) Also in the house: Superfans Karen (from Karen's Lost Notebook), Jo Garfein (from Get Lost with Jopinionated), Anil Kapur (The ODI), and many more. My Totally Lost co-host Dan Snierson was also there, and actually may still be there; the last time I saw him, he was at the after-party making a complete Frogurt of himself — trying to cajole Gregg Nations into coughing up the secrets of the Dharma notebooks, chasing Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz around and demanding that they ''do funny stuff, dammit!'' and performing a one-man adaptation of ''Ab Aeterno'' for Elizabeth Sarnoff and Jack Bender that ended with him throwing black and white rocks at Bryan Burk and breaking a wine bottle over Kris White's head. And then he took off all his clothes. And he was sober, too! (I, on the other hand, was drunk and boring.)
But about ''What They Died For.'' Let me tell you everything that happens! SPOILER ALERT! Set in the year 79 B.C., this very special 104-minute epic, shot in black and white, has Jacob and the Man In Black arguing over the proper embalming of Mother's body. The West Wing's Bradley Whitford has an extended cameo as ''Uncle,'' Mother's wacky brother, who washes ashore claiming to only want to visit his long-lost nephews, but really he wants to exploit the Island's electromagnetic light so he can finance his dream of opening a chain of big-and-tall toga stores for men. Jacob and the Man In Black momentarily put aside their differences and team up to defeat, kill, and then strangely enough eat their evil, albeit tragically misunderstood, uncle. And then they dance. In the Sideways story, Jack's son David grows a mustache and then suddenly ''remembers'' that in his Island life, he was actually Aldo. Oh, and Damon and Carlton cameo as creepy clown magicians who arrogantly refuse to explain their tricks.
Then again, maybe I'm not remembering the episode correctly.
By Jeff Jensen May 14, 2010
On Thursday night, I saw the next episode of Lost, ''What They Died For,'' which will air on Tuesday night. It screened as part of ''Lost Live,'' a really cool event produced by ABC that celebrated the music of Lost (composed by Up Oscar winner Michael Giacchino) and gave everyone involved in the Lost phenomenon — producers, cast, and fans — a chance to congregate and commune one last time before Damon and Carlton crank the donkey wheel one last notch and the show transfigures into a giant green Hurleybird and flies away on May 23. In the house at Royce Hall in the campus of UCLA: Josh Holloway (Sawyer), Jorge Garcia (Hurley), Daniel Dae Kim (Jin), Michael Emerson (Ben), Nestor Carbonell (Richard Alpert), Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond), Sonya Walger (Penny), Titus Welliver (the Man In Black), and a plethora of faces from the past, including Ian Somerhalder (Boone), Jeremy Davies (Faraday), Rebecca Mader (Charlotte), Lance Reddick (Matthew Abaddon), Kim Dickens (Cassidy), Sterling Beaumon (Young Ben), Harold Perrineau (Michael), and Malcolm David Kelley. (Waaaaaaaaaaaalt!) Also in the house: Superfans Karen (from Karen's Lost Notebook), Jo Garfein (from Get Lost with Jopinionated), Anil Kapur (The ODI), and many more. My Totally Lost co-host Dan Snierson was also there, and actually may still be there; the last time I saw him, he was at the after-party making a complete Frogurt of himself — trying to cajole Gregg Nations into coughing up the secrets of the Dharma notebooks, chasing Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz around and demanding that they ''do funny stuff, dammit!'' and performing a one-man adaptation of ''Ab Aeterno'' for Elizabeth Sarnoff and Jack Bender that ended with him throwing black and white rocks at Bryan Burk and breaking a wine bottle over Kris White's head. And then he took off all his clothes. And he was sober, too! (I, on the other hand, was drunk and boring.)
But about ''What They Died For.'' Let me tell you everything that happens! SPOILER ALERT! Set in the year 79 B.C., this very special 104-minute epic, shot in black and white, has Jacob and the Man In Black arguing over the proper embalming of Mother's body. The West Wing's Bradley Whitford has an extended cameo as ''Uncle,'' Mother's wacky brother, who washes ashore claiming to only want to visit his long-lost nephews, but really he wants to exploit the Island's electromagnetic light so he can finance his dream of opening a chain of big-and-tall toga stores for men. Jacob and the Man In Black momentarily put aside their differences and team up to defeat, kill, and then strangely enough eat their evil, albeit tragically misunderstood, uncle. And then they dance. In the Sideways story, Jack's son David grows a mustache and then suddenly ''remembers'' that in his Island life, he was actually Aldo. Oh, and Damon and Carlton cameo as creepy clown magicians who arrogantly refuse to explain their tricks.
Then again, maybe I'm not remembering the episode correctly.
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